Listed below is a bibliography of reference works, databases, thesauri and Internet sites that were used in the preparation of the thesaurus and glossary. This bibliography does not include all texts. Descriptors are chosen for their literary warrant in the U.S. agricultural literature. Authoritative works, e.g., Enzyme Nomenclature, were consulted as needed, however the recommendations of scientists are the definitive source of accepted terminology

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2009. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering
plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161:105-121.

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders
and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 181, 1–20.

The Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. New York: Random House Information Group,1997

Torre-Bueno, J. R. de la. The Torre-Bueno glossary of entomology, rev. ed. Compiled by Stephen W. Nichols; including Supplement A by George S. Tulloch. New York: New York Entomological Society in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History, 1989.